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I love blank notebooks and these are the best! Made from recycled bike inner tubes they come in all sorts of bright colors and some have appliques and embroidery. From Copenhagen artist, Larsen who sells her wares at her shop called: PalePink. She blogs (where she shows some of her other work) over at www.palepinksblog.blogspot.com. Recycled bicycle tubes seems to be a great “fabric” to work with. Larsen also creates recycled bicycle tire jewelry, but I think I’ll save that for a future post featuring several artists working with the material. If you want to read more about this artist, here is a link to an interview on Etsy.
For now, get a notebook, they are so thick and yummy!
$35.00 at Palepink’s Etsy Shop

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After a freaky tornado swished through NYC last week, Brooklyn-based design company, WrecordsByMonkey surveyed the damage and got a great idea. Repurposing the fallen camouflage sycamore trees into a limited run of eco-friendly pins. Grad your piece of history!
$10.00 for the set at WrecordsByMonkey

While you are on their site, check out their jewelry made from recycled records.

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Tine de Ruysser is a jewelry designer who is all about folding! She even invented a folding material during her studies at the Royal College of Art. Her website is dedicated to her folded work. I was especially taken by her “Banknote Jewellery“.

Detail of 6 necklaces from 6 continents (China, USA, Australia, Europe, South Africa, Argentina,)

Created from Ngultrums which is the currency of Bhutan since 1974.

From artist, Lauren Vanessa Tickle who calls this line of her work (working with currency) “Value Exploration”. Other projects which she gives glimpses of on her blog are called “Inconsolable” and “Weathered”. She is a recent graduate of RISD in the Jewelry and Metalsmithing program.

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Barcelona artist, Ana Hagopian creates beautiful organic shapes in limitless color by cutting, folding, painting and treating papers that are recycled and in turn can be recycled as well. Her necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings are delightful and delicate. Her inspiration is nature and her results are playful flowers and nuts and seeds.
More info at Ana Hagopian

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I was inspired by the opening at Device Gallery over Labor Day weekend. It was a feast of artists working with recycled and found materials. Beautifully crafted. Device Gallery, in the Barrio Logan district of San Diego is part of an upcoming group of galleries hoping to push the San Diego art scene…and the art [...]

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From artist, Erin Stevens: “The base of the pendant is the bottom of a beer can. I haven’t figured out a way to incorporate the entire can, but at least it is a start.” I love the simplicity not to mention the creativity! When you wear this lovely…. only YOU will know its thorns. Created [...]

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Crafted entirely by hand from different colors of concrete and crushed glass. The glass/concrete mixture fills formed stainless steel and brass. Some of the pieces created by this artist contain 75% post consumer recycled glass collected from local beaches. Check out the variety of shapes and sizes …clouds, lightning bolts, flowers, teardrops, hearts, and clovers! [...]

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From “Artesa”, created from recycled magazine pages using a “rolling” process that artist, Flavia, learned as a child while playing with movie tickets and store receipts. These days, she rolls up scrap magazine pages, while carefully choosing the perfect color of the coils and slowly shapes her bowls and baskets. The results take weeks to [...]

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Since everyone loved Cheeming Boey, here’s another artist working on coffee cups….Paul Westcombe (b. 1981). He has work can be found in London’s Trinity Contemporary and The Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.

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Cheeming Boey, an artist from Newport Beach, CA, creates his art using a Sharpie and recycled Styrofoam cups. Ever since 2006, Boey started drawing on foam cups as a hobby and has now turned the project into a serious business. Each cup takes a few hours to several months to create. His work was recently [...]

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